Steven Newmaster, University of Guelph
Director, NHP Research Alliance
Professor
Guelph, Ontario
snewmast@uoguelph.ca
Office:
(519) 824-4120 ext. 56002
Expert In
Bio/Research
Dr. Newmaster's research program explores biodiversity; the variety of life across landscapes, and communities at both the organismal and molecular levels. He is particularly intrigued by cryptic diversity, the maintenance of diversity at one level that is not readily apparent at others.
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Bio/Research
Dr. Newmaster's research program explores biodiversity; the variety of life across landscapes, and communities at both the organismal and molecular levels. He is particularly intrigued by cryptic diversity, the maintenance of diversity at one level that is not readily apparent at others.
Newmaster and his students employ new molecular techniques for exploring cryptic diversity in plants. They cultivate and test hypotheses in order to understand the evolutionary and ecological processes underlying the origin, distribution and maintenance of biodiversity. Their exploration of cryptic variation includes 1) long-term, densely sampled and well-characterized temperate systems within the Flora of Ontario, 2) under sampled and remote regions of the planet (e.g., within the Amazon, Asia) and 3) variation within plant species (intraspecific variation in ecotypes) and variation within individuals (endopolyploidy).
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Newmaster and his students employ new molecular techniques for exploring cryptic diversity in plants. They cultivate and test hypotheses in order to understand the evolutionary and ecological processes underlying the origin, distribution and maintenance of biodiversity. Their exploration of cryptic variation includes 1) long-term, densely sampled and well-characterized temperate systems within the Flora of Ontario, 2) under sampled and remote regions of the planet (e.g., within the Amazon, Asia) and 3) variation within plant species (intraspecific variation in ecotypes) and variation within individuals (endopolyploidy).
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